newbie: configure stops on aix

[Trent Mick]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 12:20:45PM +0000, cgicq at my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi
> I have a server running AIX 4.3
> with visualAge 5.0 as the compiler.
> 
> When I run the configure script, I get the
> following error:
> 
> configure: error: can not run test program while
> cross compiling
> 
> And it stops...
> 
> What can I do??

I saw this when working on AIX/5L (aka Monterey, aka AIX for Itanium). As
Fredrik says it indicates that the small test C program used by the configure
script to test if the C compiler is working failed. COnfigure decides that
this means the compiler is a cross-compiler (which it probably is not).

THis is the program that configure uses (line 909 in configure):

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#line 909 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}
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This failed with AIX/5L's main C compiler (compiler bug). To date, to compile
python on AIX/5L I have to modify this little test C program to actually have
a variable in it, some kind of data, or something. I don't really know what
the condition is but this works:

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int x;
#line 909 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}
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Maybe that will work for you too.

Trent


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Trent Mick
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